The US Navy has recorded the sound of the destruction of the hull of the Titanic bathyscaphe, which disappeared during an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, a few hours after it began to sink, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing officials involved in the search.
The sound was recognized using secret equipment, the publication reports. The US military, according to the newspaper, began searching almost immediately after communication with the bathyscaphe was lost. They were guided by “a secret sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines,” the source said. The name of this system is not disclosed “for reasons of national security.”
A few hours after the start of the search, the system recorded, presumably, the sound of an implosion (an explosion directed inward), near the place where the wreckage of the submarine was found. “The US Navy analyzed the acoustic data and identified an anomaly similar to an implosion or explosion in the immediate vicinity of the place where the Titan was located at the time of the loss of communication,” a senior Navy official told WSJ. At that moment, the military could not say with certainty what exactly caused this sound, the source added. According to him, the information was “immediately passed on to the head of the search and rescue operation.”
Recall that the bathyscaphe “Titan” of the OceanGate company disappeared from the radar on June 18, almost two hours after the start of the dive to the wreckage of the “Titanic” in the Atlantic Ocean. There were five people on board: the British billionaire and traveler 58-year-old Hamish Harding, the Pakistani-British businessman 48-year-old Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman, the CEO of OceanGate 61-year-old Stockton Rush and the pilot of the device, a former military diver, researcher “Titanic” 77-year-old Frenchman Paul-Henri Narjolet.
Source: Rosbalt
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